They must have heard my plea yesterday because today Wal-Mart announced it will be selling Universal and EMI music DRM free. In some ways it seems like this is a move by both Wal-Mart and the labels to try and wrestle away the stranglehold that iTunes has over the DL music marketplace.
$0.94 DRM-free, 256-kbps MP3 downloads from Universal and EMI with albums priced at $9.22
I don’t know how this turned into DRM week, but I think the move away from DRM is significant for customer experience and co-creation. As mentioned yesterday Grooveshark‘s whole co-creative business model is reliant on non DRM music shared by it’s users.
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Grand work mate. will be sure to follow your blog.
cheers